22 Mai 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
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And are these minutes published?
22 Mai 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
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And are there any decisions coming from those meetings?
22 Mai 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
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And how often does it meet?
22 Mai 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
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In its letter to the Welsh Government in October 2023 expressing concerns at MTCBCs preparedness for site closure, the Coal Authority highlighted the urgent need for an incident response team to manage the site’s closure, public safety management and safe…
22 Mai 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
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Have you yourself engaged with the UK Government?
22 Mai 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
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I'm a politician. [Laughter.]
22 Mai 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
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Thank you. Prior to answering this, quite often this is discussed on the floor of the Senedd in the Chamber, and the UK Government gets blamed, and the UK Government say that this is a Welsh Government responsibility and we've had 26 years of devolution. Do…
22 Mai 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
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Go on, then.
22 Mai 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
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Why?
22 Mai 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
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Yes. What is your—? Now, let's see what figure you all come up with. What is your current estimation of the cost to remediate the site?
22 Mai 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
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Okay. And then my final question is—
22 Mai 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
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Oh right, okay.
22 Mai 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
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Well, it is relevant.
22 Mai 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
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No, no, no, it's a fair enough question.
22 Mai 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
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Okay. So, given that this is the climate change committee, and we know that the coal mined from Ffos-y-fran was really good stuff—. I was in the Isle of Man at the Tynwald celebrations—sorry, Delyth, we differ on this—last year, and they were absolutely…
22 Mai 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
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Why are you limited from a legal perspective?
22 Mai 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
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Yes.
22 Mai 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
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But what are you doing? As a committee, we're not—. I'm not getting—
22 Mai 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
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Thank you. I am puzzled here. So, you basically have said that going back now would be difficult, and you talk about there being no mechanisms for you to open up those discussions, and relationship issues and things like that. Then you say that, in 2023, they…
22 Mai 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
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Thanks. Yes, I'll do that and then—[Inaudible.]
22 Mai 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
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[Inaudible.]
22 Mai 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
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Is there anyone who can answer that question?
22 Mai 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
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It's more grim than I thought, to be honest. So, why, in 2016, did you decline—not you, but why, in 2016, did they decline the offer from the Coal Authority to work with you to assess the escrow account requirements for restoration?
22 Mai 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
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Oh dear.
22 Mai 2024 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
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How has that been allowed to happen?